Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress has seen. There is something wrong about this situation. There should be trouble and plenty of it. This is an election year. In only a few weeks the primaries begin. In less than eight months a new Congress will be elected. And where are the issues of the campaign...
Clem Shaver, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee chosen by John W. Davis in 1924, appeared last week unobtrusively in Washington. He was preparing the party organization for the Congressional campaign next fall. The National Democratic Headquarters, which he stripped of almost all its employes after Mr. Davis' defeat, is being enlarged. Richard T. Buchanan of Indiana was appointed publicity director. Mr. Shaver is expected shortly to announce that the Democratic debt of $200,000 left over from the last campaign has been wiped...
When asked how the decision would affect the campaign Professor W. Z. Ripley has been waging for better conditions of corporate control, Professor Cunningham said, "This decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission is in direct accord with Professor Ripley's contentions. It is obvious that if only ten percent of a large issue of stock carries voting rights, a group of small minority holders can gain control of the whole thing, since all they need is 51 percent of ten percent. It was against this feature of the merger, as much as any other that the unfavorable decision was aimed...
...basis of the present manifesto. It will be remembered that Roosevelt wielded his "big stick" against the steel and the packing interests in something of an ostentatious manner. Always quick to cater to popular notions, the President found a new road to the people's heart in his campaign against the trusts...
Last week Premier King's Liberal henchmen whooped up voters of their persuasion at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where a vacant seat had been specially created by the resignation of one of Mr. King's friends in order that he might campaign for it. The territory was naturally chosen with an eye to being "safe." The candidate who opposed the Premier was one Captain D. L. Burgess, a sufficiently insignificant Independent. Suddenly, on the eve of the election, the Captain became obstreperous. He used the word "corruption." He pointed to a printed ballot on which appeared the Premier's full style...